The Allocation Setup stage

The Allocation Setup stage

The Allocation Setup stage

The Allocate Setup stage allows you to assign expenses to accounts and
segments.

On the Allocation Setup page, the sub-buckets that you created appear in the left pane, except
for sub-buckets that you excluded from the cost model. The segments and their accounts appear in
the middle pane, in the hierarchy that you defined in the data definition stage. The summary in
the right pane provides a breakdown of how the expenses are assigned to accounts in each
segment.

Buckets contain groomed general ledger expenses. These expenses can be associated with a cost center, vendor, department, and location. You can split the expenses in a bucket by any of these attributes.

A rollup is an allocation rule that specifies how a lower-level account in the segment hierarchy connects to other accounts above it in the hierarchy. This allows you to allocate expenses to the lower-level account and have expenses automatically allocated to the higher-level accounts.

Reverting bucket assignments means taking the expenses out of the segments and accounts and leaving it in the bucket. Reverting buckets also deletes existing allocation lines for the working fiscal period that are associated with this bucket.